Hi All,
I am trying to setup the Service console and vmotion using the same pair of nic and I configured the service console to use the vmnic0 as the active nic and vmnic1 as the standby and vmnic1 as the active nic for vmotion and vmnic0 as standby. I did not configure a trunk port those those nics since the only routable network is the service console port so I configured the same vlan on both port for the service console port and picked 10.10.10.xxx as the vmotion network since it does not need to be route outside its network.
I could not the ping the 10.10.10.xxx network after configuring. Is there anything I need to do make it work.
Service console vmnic0 active, vmnic1 standby
Vmotion vmnic1 active, vmnic0 standby
Override the switch configuration.
Thanks,
Steve
Do you configure the physical switch for the vlan? - If they are all on the same subnet then there really is no need for vlan -
Where are you pinging from? The service console using ping? Did you try pinging from the vmkernel port using the vmkping command?
The vmotion network is pingable when using the vmping. Is there any documentation that talks about this setup?
Thanks,
Steve
That is correct. vmkping uses the vmkernel interfaces, so it sends it request onto the vmotion network. The vmotion network sees that you want to talk to an IP address on the same network segment, and then broadcasts a request for a MAC address with that IP address, receives the MAC, and talks to the second hosts's vmkernel interface.
ping will use the primary interface, which following the same basic rules, sees that you want to talk to a segment that is not on the same network. In this case, it will send your request to its router, and then the router will not have a record for that segment, since it is non-routed, and the ping should come back unreachable.
If you want to ping, then you have to make sure the network segments are all the same, or configure the correct VLANs, and use trunks if you want to use 2 NICs with 2 VLANs.
-KjB